AN: If you missed it I added 2 chapters yesterday! So make sure you read chapter 18 before you read this!!! I enjoy all the reviews and thank all my reviewers for taking their time to comment.
CHAPTER 19
RPOV
I reached Williams Lake just after 9 am on November 1st. I drove into town. Most of the stores and businesses were closed but I happened upon a man opening a realty office.
"Time to turn on the charm Rosalie." I said to myself.
"Hello Sir, " I said to him. He looked at my car and then at me as I stepped out.
"Hello Young Lady. What can I do for you?" he asked while checking me out. Ewwww as if!!
"Well Sir," I said flirting with him, "I'm looking for my sister. Pretty little brunette. Came up here last week some time."
"Bella Masen?" he asked
"Why yes," I said.
"Ahhh yes. She rented the Spencer cabin just outside town. Do you need directions?" he asked.
"Yes please." I answered, "I can't wait to see her again." Sometimes being beautiful was a pain but most of the time it got me what I wanted.
"Here let me write them down for you so you don't get lost. The turn off can be a little tricky as it is not well marked but just remember if you see a red rock at the side of the road, you've gone too far." he said handing me a piece of paper.
"Thanks so much Sir. I can't wait to surprise her." I said grinning at him.
I got in my car and decided to take my time, making sure I looked perfect as always. It was almost noon when I finally got to the turn off to her cabin. I stopped about a mile in and decided to run the rest of the way. To surprise her.
I was the one who was surprised when I got close. The scent got me first. HOLY TOLEDO!! VAMPIRE!!! Where is Bella's truck? What the heck??? Did he make a mistake? I snuck up to the window and peeked in. I saw the back of her head as she sat on the couch. All the smells that were hitting me knocked my breath away. I listened for her heartbeat but what I heard was different. Two little rapidly beating hearts but nothing from Bella herself. Finally I saw her tilt her head.
She turned and looked straight at me. Bella was a VAMPIRE. She adjusted herself and was at the door in an instant.
"What are you doing here Rosalie?" she said. "How did you find me?"
"Umm Bella since when are you a vampire?" I asked stunned
"Ummm do I start counting at the bite or when I woke up?" she asked
"Whichever." I said
"Last night for the bite, about an hour ago for the woke up." she answered
"Seriously? 12 hour transformation?" I asked stunned
"Pretty much." she said
"And your eyes aren't red and you're very controlled. Who turned you? Have you hunted yet?" I asked
" Look I don't know how to explain. There's more Rosalie and I don't know how to explain but to show you. I need you to be calm here and not freak out, Just be quiet and follow me. Not too close just in case. Okay?" she said
"Whatever you say Bella. Edward is going to flip!" I said following her inside.
"Stop there Rose. Please." she said.
She walked over to the couch and turned her back to me. She stooped to pick something up. She took a deep breath and turned around. There were 2 babies in her arms.
"Bella where are those babies from?" I asked
"Take a big whiff Rose. Tell me what's different about these babies." she said
"They don't smell human," I said after taking a smell, "They sure look human."
"Please please please don't freak. They are mine. Edward is their dad." she said looking at me trying to judge my reaction.
"Bella how is that possible?" I asked
"Rose. After all I've been through in the last 3 weeks I still can't tell you." she said, "But I will tell you what I know."
"I'm all ears Bella." I told her
"Well you know when Edward and I were first together and everything that happened until you guys left so I won't go over that again, "she said in a pained voice but continued, "What you don't know is that I started getting sick the Monday you guys left. At first I assumed it was the flu, then I assumed it was the stress of Edward leaving but by Friday I realized there was something more going on. I drove to Port Townsend and bought a test, knowing that if it was positive that I would not be coming home. I guess you can see I got a Big Fat Positive."
"Umm yeah. I see that." I said.
"So I hopped the ferry and headed for Canada. I realized I was not on the 9 month pregnancy model and I figured having a vampire baby was going to require me to be away from people. My truck was not doing so hot so I bought a new Jeep and the salesman was talking about Williams Lake. So here I am."
"How did you get the money for all this. Excuse me for being rude but I know you don't have all the luxuries we do." I said still stunned and staring at the babies in her arms.
"Alice." she shrugged, "Before she went to Paris she saw I would need money and left it for me."
"Sounds like an Alice thing. But why hasn't she been able to see you? She and Edward have been going nuts for days."
"What do you mean Rosalie?" she said, "I've been trying to send her messages. I thought she wasn't looking."
"Bella we've all been crazy looking for you. When I got that call yesterday I came here on a hunch. I'm so glad I found you and them." I smiled. "But you never explained who turned you."
She looked down at the baby on her left and shrugged.
"So have you named them? I am assuming based on color that it's a boy and a girl?"
" The boy, my changer, is Jace Edward. The letters of his first name are all the important men to me. Jasper, Carlisle, Charlie, Emmett and Edward." She is Arriel Carlie. Arriel is spelled with two Rs. She is named for the important women in my life. Alice, Renee, You, Me, and Esme. and Carlie is a mix of her two grandfather's names."
"Bella you did so good. Thank you for including me in her name. May I....May I hold one?" I asked
"You're okay right? I mean they have heartbeats and blood." she said.
"Bella you are supposed to be the crazed newborn. If you can do it I'm sure I'll be perfect. I wouldn't want to blemish my perfect record." I smiled
She walked over and put Arriel in my arms. She was perfect.
"She looks so much like Edward. Wow." I smiled looking at the sleeping princess in my arms.
"She has his eyes too. I mean green from before he was changed. Jace here has my brown ones."
I smiled at the sleeping babies. Still too stunned by the fact that they even existed.
"Do you want to hold him too?"
"Sure, but Bella I need to ask... wow I have a lot I still need to ask." I smiled
"Shoot Rosalie." she said moving around the room tidying it.
"What do they eat?"
"Breast milk. Don't even ask how that is possible it just is. If you can smell the goats out back I was prepared since my diet while pregnant was far from normal."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Raw steak and semi cooked eggs. Regular human food just came right back up. I have to say I was so huge I was glad Emmett didn't get to see that. He would have made fun of me forever."
"Knowing Emmett you're probably right." I smiled, "Now how are you really? I mean physically and emotionally. You were kinda a mess when we left."
"How am I? Hard question. Physically fine, I mean Vampire so I have no more aches and pains. If you were here yesterday you would have gotten a different answer but today I'm good. I still can't wrap my head around Edward leaving, even with all this extra room for wrapping. Can you tell me what you know?"
"Well after you were dropped off at home we met back at the house and discussed all the places that Edward might have gone. We figured out the whole self loathing vampire thing..." I started.
"What do you mean self loathing? I still don't understand why he left. I don't get it." she said sadly.
"Bella he didn't stop loving you if that's what you're getting at. He just couldn't stand hurting you. He left to try to keep you safe. He didn't want to hurt you. He saw the bruises and finally ran away to a small island in the South Pacific. He set the boat adrift so he couldn't get back as easily. He was a mess by the time we found him." I said.
"A mess?" she asked.
"He looked like the walking dead." I said. "Anyways this whole mess would have been a lot easier if we could have reached Alice. She could have found him and we wouldn't have had to search all over the world for him. Seriously do you know how many countries we visited before we found him? Anyways we found him and tried to talk some sense into him but he was being Edward. So he finally left the island and went to hunt. While he was gone Alice and Jasper showed up, and let me tell you Alice was fit to be tied! By the time he got back with the boat she yelled at him and told him you were gone and that she couldn't see you so they took off and started searching for you. We all went back to Forks waiting to see if there were any more leads and keeping up appearances. Then you called."
"Wow! Okay Rosalie we need to leave here I need to find Edward. He needs to meet his babies. Do you have your cell? Can we call them?"
"I wish. It seems none of our cells work in Canada. I tried to call Carlisle, Esme, Emmett and Jasper when I knew where you were but they must have joined Edward and Alice because I got nothing."
"So what do we do?" she asked looking hopeless.
"I think the best idea would be for us to go back to Forks. They are bound to check in and once they do they'll all me back in no time." I said.
"Let me get the rest of my stuff in the Jeep and then we can go," she said. "Shall I follow you? You do have a car here right?"
"I do have a car here, but lets leave it here and take your Jeep. I really don't want to let you, Jace and Arriel out of my sight. It wasn't so easy to find you."
"Rose, thank you." she said.
"Anytime little sister." I said.
